Service encounters
Subtitle: class, gender, and the market for social distinction in urban China
By: Amy Hanser.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780804758369; 9780804758376
Subjects: Social classes -- China; Social stratification -- China; Sex role -- China; Markets -- China; China -- Social conditions -- 2000-; China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221 and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Revolution and reform : the business of retail in modern China; title: Service work with socialist characteristics; title: Distinction work and the gendered production of class; title: The underground and counter strategies of distinction; title: Post-socialist distinction work; title: Conclusion.